Centre européen pour la construction de lanceurs d'engins spatiaux
Arianespace is a multinational company and a leading commercial launch service provider, marketing and operating launch vehicles like Ariane 5, Soyuz, and Vega, and the upcoming Ariane 6. As a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, it plays a crucial role in providing independent access to space, particularly for European organizations and governments. Arianespace launches missions from the Guiana Space Centre and works with partners like the European Space Agency (ESA) and Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). Key activities include preparing missions, managing customer relations, and offering a wide range of space-based applications, including telecommunications, science, navigation, and Earth observation.
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RadCube was launched from the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana with coordination by Arianespace.
As of 2021-12-13, Arianespace and the European Space Agency were scheduling the James Webb Space Telescope launch for 2021-12-22.
Arianespace is planning the first flight of Ariane 6 in 2022, scheduled for the second part of the year.
Arianespace launched two satellites for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system on 2021-12-04.
Arianespace is slated to launch NASA’s $10,000,000,000 James Webb Space Telescope on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on 2021-12-22.
The 2021-12-04 mission was the eleventh time Arianespace has performed a launch for the Galileo constellation.
Arianespace is a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, which holds 74% of Arianespace’s share capital, with the balance held by 15 other shareholders from the European launcher industry.
Arianespace targeted a revised earliest launch time of 2021-12-04 at 19:19 Washington, D.C. time (21:19 Kourou time; 00:19 UTC on 2021-12-05; 01:19 Paris time on 2021-12-05; 03:10 Moscow time on 2021-12-05) following the weather hold.
Arianespace is headquartered in Évry, near Paris, and operates a technical facility at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana plus local offices in Washington, D.C., Tokyo, and Singapore.
Arianespace has orbited over 1,000 satellites since 1980 using the Ariane, Soyuz, and Vega launchers from French Guiana, Baikonur, and Vostochny.
Arianespace’s 13th launch of 2021 was the 8th Soyuz mission of the year and launched the Galileo FOC 23-24 satellites into Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).
Arianespace will launch two Galileo navigation satellites from Kourou in French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket on Thursday, 2021-12-02 (CET).
Testing completed by 2021-11-24 found no sign of damage to any James Webb Space Telescope components after a clamp band released during payload processing by Arianespace.
NASA, working in conjunction with the European Space Agency and Arianespace, moved JWST’s launch on an Ariane 5 from 2021-12-18 to no earlier than 2021-12-22 to perform additional testing of the spacecraft after the incident.
Thales Alenia Space built SES-17, which Arianespace launched on 2021-10-23.
Arianespace secured a contract with Australian operator SingTel Optus to launch the Optus-11 communications satellite on Ariane 6 in 2023.
An Arianespace Vega flight on 2021-11-16 delivered the CERES 1, CERES 2, and CERES 3 satellites into orbit for CNES on behalf of the French Ministry for the Armed Forces (DGA).
SingTel Optus is partnering with Arianespace for the Optus-11 mission.
Arianespace launched the SES-17 satellite on 2021-10-23.
Arianespace launched the SES-17 satellite from French Guiana on 2021-10-23 at 10:10 a.m. Eastern on an Ariane 5 rocket.